Who else can combine politics and lightsabers? Colbert is the best thing to happen to TV since John Stewart.

Steve Colbert, Internet Pied Piper
This is in no way to imply that hordes of “Colbert Report” viewers are rats, but it is truly amazing what Stephen Colbert has been able to inspire with his “Stephen Colbert’s Greenscreen Challenge,” wherein viewers are invited to take this footage of Colbert rockin’ the light saber Jedi-style and use it as the centerpiece for their own “bold depictions of my heroic fight,” as Colbert called it last month when he announced the Challenge on-air.This is fan fiction taken to a whole new level — as we’ve noted before, the genius of Colbert is that he knows how to use this content and drive the quality up by providing an incredible platform.

This is quality stuff, really really funny, and if it doesn’t represent an experiment in a new form of content-generation for Comedy Central, it should. They’ve got plenty of open timeslots, and clearly there’s some good stuff out there.

Maybe we could talk John into doing something like this…